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only look for an opportunity o£ returning again to their Country i or they are Arah 
who are of all men the fooneft corrupted by mony : otherwife there is no doubt to 
be made, but that (if thcfe men were faithful unto him, ) he might very well make 
Head againlt all the Neighbouring Bajhas joyned together. Fourteen years agoe 
two of his Uncles, immediately after the death of their Brother, the Father of this Two of the 
Man went to Confiantinople and begged of the Grand Signior^ the one the Ba(hajhip ^"^^^Ij^ll^^^l 
of Bajfora-, and the other that of C«fif and Lehhfah the Grand -Jigwior granted their 
defire, and commanded Murteza Bapa, then Bafha of Bagdad, to turn out the 
Bajhas of Bajfara and of Catif Lehhfa, who were both alike difobedient to the " 
Grand Signior, and to put thofe two Arabs Brothers in their places. Immediately 
Murteza BaJJja advanced with thefe two Princes towards Vgezire, where he was 
joyfully received by all v he then marched towards Bajfora, where he was likewife 
received : the truth is, t\\ç.BaJhaoi Bajfora {[^yed not for him there, for feeing him- 
ftlf forfakenby his people, (who were difgufted at his Tyrannies,) he fled to Vu- 
rach a Town of Perfia. Thus Murteza Bajha, without ftroke of Sword made him- The ^a^a of 
felf Mafter of Bajfora, whereof in time he might have become Soveraign, if he ^"Jfora flies to 
had had but a little better Conduâ:. U|)on his arrival he made one of thofe Arabs 
Princes Bajha, but two days after, having taken them both with him out of the , 
Town, under pretext of a walk, he caufed them to be firangled. Thisadion ^ Rcvoludon 
extreamly difpleafed the people of the Country, yet if he had ftopt there, h^^^ ^'H'"^''' 
might have given it out, that he had inftru6tions from the Grand Signior to do fo, 
and in procefs of time gained the friendftiip of all the Militia of Bajfora h and then 
he might have been fo well tixed, that it would not have been in the power of 
any to turn him out of his Government, But not fatisfied with the death of thofe 
two Meo, he returned to the Town, and the fame day having fent for the mofl: 
confiderable and wealthieft Citizens, he feized on their Eftates, and ordered fifteen or 
twenty of them to be hanged publickly h which fb incenfed the Soldiers, that they 
all rofe againft him i fo that he was obliged to be gone in hafte, carrying with him 
what he could of the Riches of Bajfora. Since that, he went twice to Confianti- 
mpk, and both times was fent back Bajha of Bagdad but being a third time called to 
the Port, he went as far as Mojul, but durft go no further, for fear of being put 
to death : he therefore rcfolved to fly into Ferfia, and was upon his way but 
(as ill luck would have it,) fome Curdes knew him as he was Travelling through 
Curdiftan^ and cut off his Head, That Man was a Georgian, and though he made The dtath ot 
profeffion of ihelmk^fh Law, yet he was a Chriftian in his Heart, and had never 
been Circumcifed, making the Turk^s believe he was. His only defign was to 
make himfelf Mafter of fome State, and then to own the Turk^ no more s and 
therefore he was extreamly obliging to all the Soldiers whofe love and friendftiip 
he had generally procured, till by his cruelties he loft it. When he faw himfelf 
upon the brink of ruin, he would have delivered up Bagdad to the King of Perfia^ 
but that Prince rcfufed the offer, not being then in condition to maintain a War. 
!n Iliort, he had for fometime fo wrought upon the affeârions of the Soldiers and 
People, that he rriight have done great matters, if he had not wanted Conduét. 
To return to the Bafha of Bajfora, no fooner was Murteza BaJha gone, but the law- 
ful Bafha being recalled by his Subjeârs, came back, and was received by his peo- 
ple as before. The day he departed from Vurach^ Orders came from the King of 
Perfia to the Governour ot that place to ftop him : and it was faid that that 
Prirxes dtfign was to fend an Army with the fame BaJha to Bajfora, and to make 
himfelf Mafter of that Towni but the Order came a little too late, for he was 
already gone. 
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